Google in Tech Rivals’ Sights for Suits After DOJ Antitrust Win

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is ripe for more private antitrust litigation after the Justice Department’s victory in a search monopolization suit against the tech company and a similar case brought by Yelp Inc. this week.

Yelp, the online review site, filed a complaint Aug. 28 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Google has monopoly power in the local search advertising market. The case follows an Aug. 5 ruling, where Judge Amit P. Mehta found that Google had monopoly power in the product markets for general search services and general search text ads.

Mehta’s ruling ...